Ecosystems
A system that includes all living and noliving things in the environment
What is an Ecosystem
The Source of all energy in an Ecosystem
What is the Sun
The removal or destruction of Forests and Trees
What is Deforestation
Organism that cannot make their own food
What is Consumer
The Process by which a species becomes fitted to its environment
What is survival
The Nonliving parts of an ecosystem
What is Abiotic
Natural resources that can be restored or never runs out
What is Renewable Resource
The sorting, melting and reusing of certain products in an effort to protect the environment
What is Recycling?
Organism that makes their own food
What is a Producer
A population which exceeds its sustainable size with a particular environment or habitat
What is overpopulation?
The Living Parts of an Ecosystem
What is Biotic
Natural resource that is restored slower than it is used or is not able to be restored
What is Nonrenewable Resource
The Result of Human Activities on an Ecosystem
What is Human impact
An Animal that Gets its energy form eating ONLY plants
What is a herbivore
This Sub-Tropical Ecosystem is characterized by extreme precipitation and vegetation.
What is the Rainforest?
The sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism
What is a Food Chain
Natural Resource that comes from Fossilized animal Remains
What is Natural Gas and Oil
The introduction of harmful substances to the environment
What is Pollution
Organism that breaks down dead organic material
What is a Decomposer
This Ecosystem is characterized by the extreme lack of precipitation and elevated temperature
What is the desert?
The Amount of energy that moves along the food chain
What is the Flow of energy
What is Water?
Positive and negative associates between species
What is interaction?
An Animal that Gets its energy from eating animals and Plants
What is a Omnivore
An Organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area
What is Invasive species